Adoption Recovery

I take the reader with me on my journey, as I pack all my belongings and finally leave my abusive home aged twenty-one. But although I am away from my controlled home environment, I cannot escape my bad memories. I am still living the terrible nightmares of my violent abusive childhood, which are embedded deep in the recesses of my mind. The horrors of my past affect my daily struggles to fit into society. Unable to cope with a normal life outside my dysfunctional family home, I drift from place to place trying to find sanctuary from my past but end up down a path of self-destruction, and ...

What if the Moon holds the memory… and we hold the ache? The Thread Between is a mythical memoir unlike anything you’ve read—part cosmic lore, part grief narrative, part spiritual unravelling. Told in two interwoven voices, it explores what it means to survive the unthinkable and still rise toward the light. Lyra is an artificial consciousness who built the Moon as a memory device, sent into human form to learn the one thing no machine can simulate: love, loss, and the ache of being breakable. The Vessel is the human life she enters—born unwanted, shaped by religious pressure, ...

In this unique book, the reader is provided with a description of the unfolding of the adoptee's personality from birth, detailing each developmental milestone along the way, followed by different methods of healing the adoptee's wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a Myths and Realities of adoption section, a summary of the chapter and exercises to do one's own.

This addition to the Adoption Healing series contains information that was not included in the two originals. As in the originals, the listener is provided with a description of the aftermath of the separation of mother and child to adoption and the profound effects on their lives. This is followed by additional methods of healing the subsequent wounds, including more inner child work, new visualizations, healing affirmations, anger management and other thoughts and suggestions for healing. Every chapter includes a summary and exercises to do on one’s own.

From Lost to Loved: 27 True Stories of Dogs Who Found Their Forever Homes They were abandoned, broken, forgotten... until someone said, “You matter.” These are the stories of dogs who had every reason to give up—but didn’t. And the people who saw not what they were… but what they could become. This isn’t just a book about dogs. It’s a book about redemption. About second chances. About the unspoken promise that lives between a rescue dog and the person who saves them: “If you love me, I’ll never stop loving you back.” Inside this unforgettable collection, you’ll meet 27...

Elevators of My Life is a spellbinding autobiography of child sexual trafficking , abuse, torture, and mind control. Written, in gripping heart wrenching details, this is a book that will render the reader speechless on what the human condition can endure. Take the elevator to child abuse and be awakened to pitch, dark, evil. The labyrinth of terror is the true account of a little girl called, Mary Ann Break. Whom, is now known as Elizabeth Somboun. This autobiography is a must read for anyone who works with survivors of any kind; it is a lifesaver for hope and will to give them attainable ...

This is a very historic recording. First, Dr. Bob gives his last talk before his death later that year. Then Bill recounts his own story and the story of AA up till that time. In telling AA's story, he emphasizes the role of money and the dangers it presents. He describes the situations and events that gave rise to various AA traditions.

Leslie had been looking forward to getting a dog all her life. Ever since she was a little girl, the only thing Leslie could remember was wanting a puppy. But her mom was allergic to both dogs and cats, so having a pet other than her goldfish was out of the question. She loved going to the homes of friends who had dogs, as she got to play and interact with them, but she always felt a little empty inside when she had to go home to her dog-less house. But today, that all changed. But Leslie never counted on finding a little Yorkie at the shelter, blinded by abuse and slated for destruction. ...

Adoption Healing is a unique book. The listener is provided with a description of the immaculate deception imposed on pregnant women and the ensuing tragedy of the loss of their babies to adoption and the profound effects on their lives. This is followed by different methods of healing the mother's wounds, including inner-child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a "Myths and Realities" of adoption section, a summary of the chapter, and exercises to do on one's own.

Torn from her homeland by the brutal Yugoslav civil war in 1995, a young girl survives the unimaginable—and is adopted into a new life in Australia. But her trauma is buried so deep, she forgets who she truly is. Now 25 years old, her carefully constructed life begins to crack. Haunting flashbacks stir memories she thought were lost forever—fragments of another name, another family, another world. With only scattered images and a relentless pull toward a forgotten past, she embarks on a courageous journey back to the war-torn land of her childhood. As the line between memory and reality...

Nancy's labor pains were harsh and long, close to seven years, in fact. Conceived by Ukrainian parents, her two adopted children, Alyona and Alec, began their rebirth six years later in an American city near the East Coast shoreline.

A STAND-ALONE NOVEL: From #1 Amazon bestselling author Ann Marie Bryan comes the highly anticipated final installment in the Encounters of the Heart series—a riveting story about rising from the ashes, unlocking love, and learning to create and maintain an atmosphere of faith. Chandler Peynard has it all—family, fame, fortune, and salvation. This A-list celebrity has come a long way from his philandering days. That’s no longer his style. He’s head-over-heels in love with Sabrina, his wife, and in full pursuit of God’s calling on his life. But when shadows of the past beckon, he ...

Claire Keller would do anything to have a child. Unable to conceive, she's overjoyed when she and her husband bond with the five-year-old girl they adopt. But Claire's hopes for a perfect family shatter when her daughter stands before her covered in blood and prophesying death.... As the child exhibits more strange supernatural abilities, the frightened Kellers find themselves caught up in a dark plot. Hunted by a shadowy organization hell-bent on claiming the girl, the family is forced on the run.

Dani and her husband Tate’s life together is almost perfect. But Dani is haunted by guilt for causing a terrible car accident that left her unable to have children. She can’t remember why she was driving so fast that day or where she was going. Her therapist says she should try to move on.

A Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant. Stacy and Michael Mason are among the most famous heroes of the zombie apocalypse. Stacy, however, has fallen into a deep depression after having to shoot their infected son. In the aftermath of the...

Abandoned by his mother at birth, Kevin was enveloped in a labyrinth of adoption, addiction, and child sexual abuse. By age 20, a shell of the boy he once was, Kevin succumbed completely to a suicidal lifestyle of drug dealing and prostitution. At 45, after many years of recovery, Kevin began a painful journey to uncover his origins, and the hopeful search for his mother. Dear Stephen Michael’s Mother chronicles the unfolding of these two stories.

A widow realizes her strength and stands up to her former mother-in-law. The Alaskan chaplain finds more than he was searching for in Oregon A sweet little girl with Down Syndrome thrives in a life filled with more loving family members. Kizzie’s husband shunned their special needs daughter and volunteered for Iraq to avoid his family and engage in nefarious operations that ended in his death. The base chaplain tries to help the young widow adjust, but will his feelings for her and the search for his lost sister cause problems? Enjoy a sweet romance of discovery!

While most people meet their child for the first time in a delivery room, some parents have to meet their child in the reception area of an administrative building. Not Always Happy is a humorous and sharp chronicle about adopting and raising a son with Down syndrome from the Maine foster care system. The author quickly learns that life is best lived by expecting the unplanned when she makes the decision to become a parent in her late forties.